A Small Gesture
Subject: Re: The Farm
Pensive lifts a scarf over his nose as they descend into the cellar. The smell of rot is thick-- they do not walk through it, they wade through it.
"Blood and stone," he whispers as he sees the woman's body.
She has been dead for days, but the scent of her fear and pain lingers in the darkness, a second stench. Pensive's guts roil and knot-- it is all he can do not to vomit. He forces himself to examine her, each dark cut, every line of pain etched on her skin. This is the work of Sand-- he has studied the work of Stone, let him study now the Sand. He pushes his hand toward her to touch her-- he must touch her, must fight the Shadow that still seeps through the room to mock him, to mock Blood and Stone. Close her eyes, place a pebble in her mouth.
A small gesture, a small kindness. It takes only a moment. Meaningless against the greater tide of sand and shadow. But it is something that he can hold to. He ignores the maggots squirming against his palms as lowers her fully to the floor of the cellar, and crosses her arms across her chest.
"Thy boat bear thee to the Gentle Shore," he says in low elvish.
And then he moves away from her, upstairs after Rennick, and the rest of the house.
The home is empty. There's no sign of any struggle here. Why was that? Surely the men here must have fought for their lives? Perhaps they were taken outside. . . or in the barn. Pensive nods at Rennicks words, frowing a bit.
"Let us go quickly to the barn, then, Hunter," Pensive says softly. "Quickly and cautiously."
From: Raja
Subject: Re: The Farm
OOC: Fantastic post.
From: Karl
Subject: Re: The Farm
Ty, I never got the post below from Scott. I don't know why this is a continuing problem for emails sent to the Overlook group. I don't seem to have this problem with Mark's mailing list in my other game.
From: Raja
Subject: Re: The Farm
I run the list, so when I get home from work today I'll log in to it and see what my administration options are. I don't know if I'll be able to figure anything out, but I'll try.
Raja
From: Ty
Subject: test for karl
Did you get this karl?
From: Karl
Subject: Re: test for karl
Yes. It's odd. On this list I'd estimate I miss every 4th or 5th email. Luckily I'm able to notice like this current time because someone replies with the email I missed attached and I get the reply.
Karl